The award honored the program for its outstanding activities to promote public awareness of birth defects through innovative and collaborative education and prevention efforts. 

In March 2004, the program received a $50,000 grant from the Florida Chapter of the March of Dimes to develop a series of fact sheets for nine different birth defects and one on pregnancy loss.  The fact sheets are in both English and Spanish and were developed for individuals with low literacy levels.  In December, the fact sheets were distributed nationwide by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its January Birth Defects Prevention Month packet.  The fact sheets will be available on the Florida Department of Health’s Birth Defects Registry website (http://www.fbdr.org/) later this spring.